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Gill the Piano wrote:Don't know it. I've been plagued by 'Shout, shout, let it all out' by some 80s band.

That was Tears For Fears, biggest British hit was 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World', though they also had the original of 'Mad World', which I think plagerises a little of Yusuf Islam 'Matthew and Son' from the 60s.

'Wyvern' by Boone and Murfin. It goes 'Home is a place where you always turn to, and if you want you can really learn to fly'. It was written and recorded as a theme song for Radio Wyvern which served the two counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire between 1982 and 2012. It really is a great song - pity I can't find it anywhere on fileshares or YT. Sammy Southall, who is a photographer based in Kidderminster and also happened to be the first voice on Wyvern in 1982 (which I heard as a 12 year old in Smethwick) might be able to point me in the right direction. He has a website.

Summer of 69 by a darn good Canadian musician (something Justin Biebersley will never be even in his dreams!!) Someone in Aldis Bromsgrove earlier on had it as a ringtone and Ken Bruce played it yesterday!!

The attempts at pulling myself out of the doldrums continues in earnest, with a degree of uncertainty as to how long they'll last, or even whether they will work if my soul does not respond to them. The latest medicine comes in the form of 'Sunchyme' by Dario G, named after one of the longest serving British football (boo) managers in history, sampling 'Life In A Northern Town' by Dream Academy which in itself was mistakenly written about the bands' biggest influence, Nick Drake.

In The Hall Of The Mountain Kings. I picked up a Naxos of both the Peer Gynt suites that doesn't have the Piano Concerto no1 on it also just to fill in time.

Naxos are a midprice label, however many charity shops either underprice or overprice them. Whenever I see them underpriced, I always buy. When I see Chandos, Hyperion and Deutsche Grammophon for a pound a go, I definitely buy.

I know it's early but I found it last night, Cwcwll by the band Beganifs, from the Gwyrfai valley in north Wales. 'Alaw sy'n newid y donfeddi'r donfedd...' Quite a psychedelic track too, remember it from when I was learning Welsh.

The theme tune from WKRP in Cincinnati. I used to love this when it was on English TV in the early 80s, it was about a badly-run radio station in the American Midwest. I asked everyone what WKRP stood for and they didn't have a clue, but this was before I understood the system of three and four letter callsigns for radio and TV licenses in the USA. Stations east of the Mississippi have the callsign W--- or W-- and in the west it's K--- or K--. We had a radio station called BRMB and I was never sure what that stood for until much later (BiRMingham Broadcasting)

After fixing a ceiling rose in.....There Is A Rose in Spanish Harlem by, among other artists, The Drifters.

Not had it 'on my mind' per se, but I've been thinking about it a lot in recent days; Paul Evans - Hello This Is Joanie (The Telephone Answering Machine Song). Not least because Joanie was my mother in law - from Farrock in Essex.

Those Saturday Night Clive shows were awfully predictable, banal and highly managed, but that all went out the window when Margarita Pratacan sat at that piano and afterwards, her conversation with Clive James could produce anything! He also had Peter Cook on his show and that was equally as spontaneous (ly combustible).

I cannot stop whistling 'Enola Gay' by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (or OMD as they later became). Who'd had thought a song about the destruction of a Japanese city by an atomic bomb in 1945 and subsequent superpower arms race could be the basis for a catchy pop song? Like Maxwell's Silver Hammer sort of thing (The Beatles - serial murder).

When I was a 6th former the music A level lot were given a junior choir to do 2 songs in a competition. We won with 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' and 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer'. Guess which one the kids liked best?

The hymn 'When I Needed A Neighbour' as it was sung today. I am probably to blame for that as I passed on some unused sheet music to the Director in Music in church that contained that one, which was nice to hear again after all these years. Also, TOMS was sung also which I've long regarded as a service-closing belter.

...and we also had 'When I Needed A Neighbour' at the dedication service to the local Foodbank, to which my wife and I had two referrals and food parcels for in the time I've been away from this page - and so it will always be my 'own' charity:

Not the sort of tune to have on your mind really, but 'Einstein On The Beach' by Philip Glass was on the radio this morning as I was walking along the road into work, the '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8' repetition is perfect to give your sense of rhythm a workout.

I have the same piece on now in binaural stereo and it's even more infectious.

Loved that one. My niece as a kid had an obsession about Popcorn and made my brother play it every day. I liked the Crunch by the Rah Band too. There were some good electronic instrumentals in the 70s.

Whilst Telemann's Viola and Recorder concerti was playing as I've been preparing a spaghetti bolognese on the hob and roasting a honeyed gammon joint in the oven, I was actually thinking: Telemann, Telemann, who wanna be a Telemann....

Caribbean, by Brian Bonsor. Young Musician Concert tomorrow morning and it's one of the pieces my P7 class are playing. I am accompanying five pieces so had better try to fit in some extra practice today.